Thread: What's the point of Geographic restrictions from a publisher's perspective?
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Old 02-12-2010, 03:56 AM   #28
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Originally Posted by theducks View Post
Has anyone thought of replacing Geo rights, with "Language Rights" (for e-books)?
As pointed out. ex-patriots live all over the world.
A publisher gets to publish by (regional variant) of the contracted Language (varient)

This would allow for en-us, en-uk ...
I agree totally with this. I can understand US publishers objecting to UK publishers selling to US customers and vice versa but why then do both block English speaking customers from other countries?

Surely a better and fairer system would be the language rights as the ducks said, or the US just block sales to UK customers and vice versa as that seems to be the major problem. This would allow expats to purchase in their native language which at the moment for the most part they can not.
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